From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V5 #217 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, June 27 1999 Volume 05 : Number 217 Today's Subjects: ----------------- cat power, revisited [Andrew Fries ] Re: Weird Al "The Saga Begins" [Bill Mazur ] Kristeen Young [John Drummond ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:45:21 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: cat power, revisited In a message "Re: cat power!" on 26/Jun/1999 13:22:14 I trashed "myra lee": > my original impression was that it was a rather amateurish effort. She > sounded like a kid learning to play music in the kitchen Then again... after I fired off that message I thought it might be an idea to actually listen to the CD. Guess what? It seemed MUCH better this time around. In fact, I've absolutely no idea how I got my initial negative impression. It just goes to show, some records need more than a cursory listen and the same person can have vastly different reactions to the same piece in different circumstances. Or at least, I can. Just ignore me... - ------------------------------------------------------ 62,400 repetitions make one truth. - Aldous Huxley - ------ http://www.zip.com.au/~afries/hall.html ------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 09:06:20 -0700 From: Bill Mazur Subject: Re: Weird Al "The Saga Begins" Michael Curry wrote: > Weird Al singing a song about The Phantom Menace to the tune > of "American Pie." > > http://www.sagabegins.com/ > > np: Weird Al Yankovic -- "The Saga Begins" > nr: Blindness by Jose Saramago Thanks for sharing Michael! This is really cute, funny and clever. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 22:46:50 -0700 (PDT) From: John Drummond Subject: Kristeen Young Okay, y'all, after the rave reviews from everybody and their greasy granny on this list about Kristeen Young's new album, I went ahead and sent her 13 bucks... and "Enemy" arrived today... and JESUS... she got better... and she got WAYYYYY pissed, too! Whoa... she's just amazing... and so detached from her body, that's the neat thing... her lyrics are so just detached anti-biological it makes me wince. Like, "take my hand place in your pants now turn me 'round bend and pound" and "if something's growing inside me i call it a tumor baby" and "life-stealing baby gun" and "we had a fetus once i squished it like a bug it meant nothing to me"... Good Christ! I've been waiting for an album like this forEVER... a woman who's so vehement and pissed off and unrelenting and wow... Kristeen Young has done it. Every song just rules. It rules even more that she mentions Polly Jean in "Sacrifice", when talking about music being her lover. But wow, she even knows how to make bangin' keyboard-and-drum tracks... rule! Thanks, guys, for giving me the perfect psycho woman... something tells me her music and mine are kind of similar... John === ain't no way i lost this war and ain't no way you won _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V5 #217 **************************